Sylheti Nagri
Sylheti Nagri or Sylheti Nagari (Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ, ISO: Silôṭi Nagri, pronounced [silɔʈi nagɾi]), known in classical manuscripts as Sylhet Nagri (ꠍꠤꠟꠦꠐ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ, Sileṭ Nagri) as well as by many other names, was an Indic script of the Brahmic family. The script was historically used in areas of Bengal and Assam that were east of the Padma, primarily in the eastern part of the Sylhet region, to document Muslim religious poetry known as puthis; having no presence in formal documentations. In the course of the 20th century, it has lost much ground to the standardised Eastern Nagari script. Printing presses for Sylheti Nagri existed as late as into the 1970s, and in the 2000s, a Unicode font was created for the script.
| Sylheti Nagri ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ | |
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The word "Silôṭi Nagri" in Sylheti Nagri script | |
| Script type | |
Time period | c. 15th century CE to present |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| Region | Bangladesh |
| Languages | Middle Bengali, Sylheti, |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Proto-Sinaitic[a]
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| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Sylo (316), Syloti Nagri |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Syloti Nagri |
| U+A800–U+A82F | |
[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon. | |
| Brahmic scripts |
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| The Brahmi script and its descendants |
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